Minecraft is more fun with friends. Players can connect with each other on personal or public servers and enjoy the block game with each other.

To play with friends, you'll need Minecraft Realms, which (like Java hosting) one person will have to pay for, and others can then join for free.

Thanks to Minecraft's "Better Together" update, players hoping to play the world-building game together can do so, they'll just need to make sure they're all on Minecraft's Bedrock version.

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Minecraft is a great game to play with friends, and you can cross-play with them no matter the platform, as long as you have the same version. This means that if you own the Java Edition of ...

"Minecraft" offers cross-platform play for both versions of the game — Bedrock and Java — but you can only play with users who own the same version.

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We show you how you can play Minecraft Cross-Platform between Windows PC and Xbox and invite your friends to play.

Java is also not terribly well optimized for 3D games like Minecraft, and wouldn't have run well on the first round of consoles it released on, which includes the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

To play Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition with Game Pass on PC, you'll just need to install the Java & Bedrock Edition from the Microsoft Store page or from the Xbox app for PC.